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EU is neither free nor open. I'm saying this as a citizen of EU member. It's getting more and more pro-big-business and pro-big-government day by day. While cit
by mantas 4y ago
EU is neither free nor open. I'm saying this as a citizen of EU member. It's getting more and more pro-big-business and pro-big-government day by day. While citizen self-governance is crushed over and over.
Good example is Poland vs EU conflict for political control of judges. Meanwhile nobody bats an eye for existing political control of judges in my country. Here higher level judges have to be approved by parliament. Currently parliament speaker is a leader of a party that is trialed for corruption. This party is in ruling coalition as well. So the party that is in trial also makes a call who can work as a judge. Yet there's zero complains about that :)
- jeoqn 4y agoIt’s only bad if the judges are conservative ;-)
- mbork_pl 4y agoWhere are you from, if I may ask?
- mantas 4y agoHello from your northern neighbour, Lithuania.
- mariusor 4y agoPersonally I don't see how your example shows EU crushing "citizen self-governance" which sounds like a liberarian charged expression for "democracy". Could you elaborate please?
- mantas 4y agoMy example was more about EU bureaucrats looking for something else than rule-of-law and democracy and whatnot :) As for exactly self-governance, IMO earmarked funding is the worst example. There're lots and lots of dumb investments that were made only to take „EU money“ (because somehow it's too hard for people to contact that it's our taxes). And other areas were neglected because there was no „EU money“ to take. Watchtowers may be one of most in-your-face examples :)